Palmy North Startup Weekend
One of the beauties of teaching a ‘block’ course is that you really get the chance to do things differently from traditional week-by-week teaching. In two weeks time, I’ll be with students on 152.334...
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Yesterday, I interviewed Richard Dryden, Marketing and Events Co-ordinator for the BCC, about what to expect from the Start-up weekend on 12-15 September. Here’s a summary of the key points: You refer...
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Met the students this morning – they’re here for the 152.334 Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship paper, and we started off with a session setting out the aims for the next few days, and working...
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The Startup weekend – fantastic experience for students
I was really pleased when I arrived here in July to find that one of my teaching weekends, the block for 152.334, Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, had been set up by my colleague Jo...
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Exciting times for foodHQ Manawatu
It’s great to be here at Palmerston North, being part of developing the entrepreneurial and innovation talent to help make Manawatu a world-class centre for food innovation. This project started some...
View ArticleRealising value in the agri-food industries: the next wave of digital innovation
In an earlier post I wrote about how digital was changing incubation needs in the creative industries. At the time, I was putting together a proposal for a virtual incubator at Southampton, but before...
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Advisory Board
Excellent insightful comment from our Industry Advisory Board today, as we start to develop the curriculum. Importance of teamwork, critical thinking and experiential learning stressed as key points....
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ecentre Demo Day
Nothing beats the excitement of live pitches from real early-stage companies as a fascinated audience witnessed at Massey’s ecentre on the Albany campus last night. 10 companies pitched to get...
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Innovate!
Great to see the Innovate finals at the NZ Sport and Rugby Institute last week, where the winner, Kevin Halsall’s Ogo, was announced to a full house. Ogo is a is a revolutionary wheel chair that...
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Young Enterprise Scheme: Creating futures
It was great to see so many keen and able students being rewarded for their work on New Zealand’s Young Enterprise Scheme on Thursday evening last week. The Award ceremony for Palmerston North and the...
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